World Fishing News – Page 889
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Trawl gear to save on fuel
Hampidjan has introduced some new trawl products, aimed at lowering fuel costs, including Dynex warps, made from Dyneema to replace steel wire. It says the new rope is much lighter and Dynex warp 36mm weighs 0.7 kg/m in air compared to 6.0 kg/m for steel wire. For 2x1,800 m the ...
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Europarl demands facts before driftnet ban
The proposed total ban on driftnets in the Baltic from Jan 2008 has effectively been blocked for the time being by the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament (EPFC) until there has been “an assessment of the effects of using driftnets and other entangling gear on the sea mammal population”, ...
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Taiwan to scrap longliners
Taiwan will be scrapping a total of 120 large-scale tuna long line vessels between 2005 and 2006 to follow the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity adopted by the FAO in 1999 that called for a reduction of large-scale tuna longline fishing vessels by 20% to ...
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Icelandic Fisheries Awards Review 2005
What an exhibition and what a country! - Last month, at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition (7-10 Sept), Iceland demonstrated once more it still remains at the forefront of the fishing industry. Fishing is still a major contributor to the country''s GDP and people are well aware of that. Currently 64% ...
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Iceland's robots to challenge globe on price and labour
Iceland''s Marel says it believes it can introduce full robotics into food processing factories and beat the competition from cheap labour in low-cost countries.
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Valka boasts weighing, speed quality and economy
Icelandic company Valka had its patent-pending packing line on show at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition and says combining its Valka RapidFeed in-feed control and dispersion machine with its new Valka RapidWeigher multi-head weigher results in significant savings in terms of reduced product waste and give-away.
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All for one and one for all - software
Icelandic company Nyherji used the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition to put its "mySAP All-in-One Fish" software on display, offering what it calls a state-of-the-art human resources and business solution for fishing companies.
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New sorting system for blue whiting
Vónin in the Faroe Islands has introduced a new sorting system for blue whiting, made up of a four-sided net tunnel with a flexible grid fitted inside.
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New products from Saeplast at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition
Saeplast presented at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition a number of new products.
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Fish tourism: Smile! aaand...Cut!
One of the interesting side events at the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition was the opportunity for participants to do some ''fish tourism'' and head off to visit Baader''s factory and see their Baader 988 taking photos of whitefish.
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Management economics what's missing?
A guide to heartless, soulless cold strategies - Almost 30 years ago Prof. Lee G. Anderson''s wrote The Economics of Fisheries Management and it was then one of a kind in its field. He revised it in 1986 and now we have the 2004 reprint. It is a bit ...
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NewsFøroyar - explosively small!
Fisheries minister Björn KalsöWhat is troubling the Faeroese is not the stock (Björn says it is mostly all right apart from cod which he says has declined a little over the past three years) but the issue of sharing them. There is no agreement on blue whiting and herring and ...
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Tuna in the eye of a storm
Tuna sandwiches are big in the US. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC- www.spc.int), quoted Heinz North America in August saying Americans eat one third of the 2.2 billion cans of tuna sold each year around the world.The debate's elements are simple: tuna as a convenience food and containing ...
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Industry moving to pumps
Bedford-based Inventive Marine Products (IMP) in Canada is doing good business selling pumps, not just for unloading vessels and harvesting salmon but for shrimp, squid and sprat. It has just delivered a Twin Micro fish pump to a shrimp farm on the East Coast of Africa.
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Mobile Hands-free for tuna
US-based Lindgren-Pitman has launched a new electric fishing reel (LP S-1200) for artisanal boats targeting catch such as tuna in Ecuador.
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NOAA puts to sea Hurricane Katrina impact
The research vessel Nancy Foster of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the US Department of Commerce, has begun working off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on marine resources and the ecosystem.
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New Minister for Iceland
Einar K Guðfinnsson (pictured) has been named the new Minister of Fisheries of Iceland after the appointment of former Minister Árni M. Mathiesen to Minister of Finances last month.
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French models show style at sea
French twine, netting and fishing gear manufacturer Le Drezen told World Fishing how it has taken digital simulation software to successful level in its research and application strategies.
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Processing solutions at the show
Marel Scandinavia will be showing a range of solutions for the fish industry during Danfish 2005. On the Danfish stage area a turn-key project will be introduced, which Marel Scandinavia recently delivered to Hanstholm Fish Auction, covering grading, registering and packing fresh fish as well as box handling and ...
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Full ahead for Outsourcing Island
Globalisation of the world fisheries and not only in fisheries may take quite unexpected turns - If you’re an owner or executive operating a large, “vertically integrated” fishery enterprise in a rich region or country (e.g. Europe, North America, Japan, Australia or New Zealand), you may benefit from all sorts ...
